DDG Frequently Asked Questions

This frequently-asked-questions (FAQ) section of our website is designed to help answer some of the most common questions we receive about the DDG competition. Click the links below for information related to the section headings.

As noted above, this past month I had the great pleasure of attending the Multicultural Education Conference (MECA) in Anaheim, California. For me, the highlight of the conference was a presentation by Silvia Mendez, a civil rights activist who is now 81 years old. She was an amazing speaker – very energetic and inspirational. Conference […]

We are pleased to share with our readers that Dr. Melanie van den Hoven completed her doctorate at Durham University earlier this year. Dr. van den Hoven is one of nine TIRF Sheikh Nahayan Fellows who were granted awards from TIRF between 2008 and 2010. Dr. van den Hoven’s study is entitled The Perspectives of […]

This month, MECA, the Multicultural Education Conference in Anaheim, was organized by Anaheim University and hosted by The Academia Foundation in Anaheim, California. The presentations addressed a wide range of topics that appeal to the teachers, administrators, and teacher trainees interested in multicultural education and intercultural communication. Topics discussed included bilingual education, intercultural communication, leadership, […]

TIRF’s Board of Trustees realizes that not every one of our supporters is able to make a financial donation to the Foundation. With this idea in mind, there is an alternative way that you can help provide meaningful revenue for TIRF without actually making a donation to the Foundation. Amazon started a program in which […]

The ASEAN-ELT conference secretariat invites the ELT community to participate at its first conference, to be held March 15-17, 2018. The conference will convene in Melaka, Malaysia, a UNESCO World Heritage City. The theme of the conference is “Maximizing the Potential in ASEAN Diversities through the English Language.” The deadline for paper proposals is December […]

Editor’s note: TIRF Trustee Nick Saville, Director of Research and Thought Leadership at Cambridge English, shares details from the LTRC event held in June earlier this year. As highlighted in TIRF’s June Newsletter, the 39th Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC) took place in Bogotá, Colombia in July. It was the first time that this annual […]

We are pleased to share the news that TIRF’s “Online Language Teacher Education: Participants’ Experiences and Perspectives” report is now available to download as an e-Book, a first-ever venture in TIRF’s commissioned papers efforts. The report was authored by Dr. Denise Murray and TIRF Trustee Dr. MaryAnn Christison. Although the OLTE report may not be […]

Just in time for the start of new academic semesters around the world, TIRF is pleased to report to its readers that there have been major updates to its “References” section of its website. Please be sure to share this information widely with your colleagues! Several new topics have been added to TIRF’s website. For […]

TIRF is now in its 16th year of awarding Doctoral Dissertation Grants (DDGs). It is because of the help of our wonderful sponsors over the years that we have been able to sustain our flagship program, which continues to grow in size each year. This year for the first time in the history of the […]

This has been a very busy month for TIRF! We have been working on the ratings of the 2017 Doctoral Dissertation Grant proposals and publicizing the 2018 TIRF James E. Alatis Prize competition. We have also been finalizing the manuscript of the fifth volume in the TIRF-Routledge series, Global Research on Teaching and Learning English. […]